{"id":15938,"date":"2021-12-17T14:59:38","date_gmt":"2021-12-17T19:59:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=15938"},"modified":"2021-12-17T14:59:38","modified_gmt":"2021-12-17T19:59:38","slug":"omicron-infects-70-times-faster-than-previous-covid-strains-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=15938","title":{"rendered":"Omicron infects 70 times faster than previous COVID strains: study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new study says that while the COVID-19 omicron variant infects the human body 70 times faster than previous coronavirus strains, the infections appear to be less severe.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/healthcare\/586074-omicon-infects-70-times-faster-than-previous-covid-strains-study\">Omicron infects 70 times faster than previous COVID strains: study<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study says that while the COVID-19 omicron variant infects the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[169,998,266],"class_list":["post-15938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-covid-19","tag-covid-19-omicron","tag-maybe-good","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15938\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}